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2022 on Goodreads etc now disabled, "not a book"
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See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Please write in to Support and voice your concerns to them. This was done by staff, and librarians cannot revert it.
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Thanks, Iethe. I have already done so and will now urge friends to do likewise. I realise there are silly things like newspaper articles that are sometimes listed when they shouldn't be, but this is very different, imo.
I just noticed you linked to the 2020 version instead of the 2022 one. Here is the 2022 version: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
lethe wrote: "I just noticed you linked to the 2020 version instead of the 2022 one. Here is the 2022 version: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5..."Yeah, thanks, I realised after. It's because you can't link to it via the usual add book/author feature.
Yay! 2022 on Goodreads has been reinstated c19:30 GMT, about 22 hours after it was locked! Power to the people!(I can now comment on my review of it and other people's, but the fix hasn't yet trickled through to show when you select "add book/author" in a comment box.)
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When I go to the page for the book itself, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5..., it's flagged:
"This item does not meet our catalog guidelines and can no longer be rated or reviewed."
Obviously, it's not really a book.
Obviously - in the title and the blurb - so there's no deceit about it.
But in some corners of GR it's a big part of the community and has been since at least 2014: thousands of reviews for each one.
Killing it on the cusp of new year is especially mean.
I understand there need to be rules about what qualifies as a book, but please make an exception for these.
Furthermore, if there's going to be a general expurgation of things that are "not a book" - please promise no reviews and their comments will be deleted, even if they are locked. Short stores are especially vulnerable to this as they may be anthologised in lots of books, but also published individually, though not necessarily with an ISBN.